Budget Thursday: Arie Threader Drops
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I like browsing BaubleBar for jewelry that I know is very trendy. The prices are low/reasonable and their pieces are very of the moment. Some of their earrings are definitely more beach appropriate than work appropriate, but I think these threader earrings strike the right balance of fun and professional. I think the threader style is very cool and unique, and I like that it’s one open piece. As a bonus, these won’t bother your ears when talking on the phone! They also have a 18K-gold plated version with cubic zirconias for $58 in their “Everyday Fine Collection,” but I think I prefer these minimal hoops, which are $28. Arie Threader Drops
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Sales of note for 9.10.24
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Ann Taylor – 30% off your purchase
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- Boden – 15% off new styles
- Eloquii – $29 and up select styles; up to 50% off everything else
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off wear-to-work styles; extra 30% off sale styles
- J.Crew Factory – 40-60% off everything; extra 60% off clearance
- Lands’ End – 30% off full-price styles
- Loft – Extra 40% off sale styles
- Talbots – BOGO 50% everything, includes markdowns
- Target – Car-seat trade-in event through 9/28 — bring in an old car seat to get a 20% discount on other baby/toddler stuff.
- Zappos – 26,000+ women’s sale items! (check out these reader-favorite workwear brands on sale, and some of our favorite kids’ shoe brands on sale)
Kid/Family Sales
- Carter’s – Birthday sale, 40-50% off & extra 20% off select styles
- Hanna Andersson – Up to 50% off all baby; up to 40% off all Halloween
- J.Crew Crewcuts – Extra 30% off sale styles
- Old Navy – 40% off everything
- Target – BOGO 25% off select haircare, up to 25% off floor care items; up to 30% off indoor furniture up to 20% off TVs
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- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
Not a mom but hoping the parents here can help me out… My best friend’s son is turning one soon and I want to get him a gift. I want something more significant than board books or clothes (which I’ve been sending periodically throughout his first year) and am looking to spend about $100-150. I’m leaning away from anything physically large because they live in an apartment and want more kids. I like the idea of getting a family membership to their local children’s museum, but I don’t want to burden the parents by creating extra work for them to use my gift — is this the kind of thing I should run by her before purchasing? Their son goes to daycare, so they’d only be able to use this on weekends, and I don’t want them to feel obligated to use their precious weekend time to go to this museum all the time (I don’t live near them, otherwise I’d love to take him there myself). Also will it be weird if I get it once and then don’t renew it next year? The first birthday is sort of a milestone in my mind, and I’m not sure I’ll want to spend this much on the gift every year.
Pregnant road trip tips? My husband and I are driving from NYC to NC and back the week of July 4. I’ll be 5 months pregnant. My main worry is that I’m having a ton of lower-back pain/sciatica. I also have to pee pretty much constantly. We’re breaking the drive up into a few days. It looks like the longest will be 8 hours of driving. Is that too much, should we break it into 4 and 4? I’ve done like 15-hour driving days but can’t imagine doing that while stopping every hour to pee. Bought a cushion to sit on for my back and will pack a cooler of cold drinks. I must sound so wimpy…
Help me with my back to work pumping schedule:
My daughter is 3 months old. I typically get up to get ready for work at 5:45 and nurse her at around 6:15 (after my shower). She then falls back asleep. We get her and her 3 year old brother up at 7:00 to get out of the house by 7:15. I get into my office around 8:15. I am still engorged at that point, so have to pump before 9:00. Then I’m in this limbo of how often to pump – right now I’m doing every 2.5 hours, so it typically looks like around 11:00, between 1:30 and 2:00, and then one before the end of the day. This is obviously too many pumping sessions – four at the office doesn’t make sense. But I can’t skip the morning one because I’m engorged, and I don’t have time to fit it in at home unless I wake up at 5:00 am, which just depresses me at this point due to my lack of sleep. I can’t skip the afternoon one because I’m usually not home until 6:30, so if I pump at 1:30, it’s too long a gap in between. What am I missing here? Do I just spread them out and pump every 3 hours (so 8:30, 11:30, 2:30 . . . 6:30?) Or every 4 hours? (8:30, 12:30, 4:30, 8:30?) This should be easier to figure out, but my brain is fried from my first week back to work.
Try 8:45, 12pm, 3:30pm. You’re milk supply will be lower in the afternoon (its highest in the morning.
Can’t thread on my phone…I also had sciatica early in my second trimester (especially while driving) and got a prenatal massage and it disappeared for the rest of my pregnancy. So you could try a prenatal massage with an experienced massage therapist before the drive? It can’t hurt.
Reposting because I’m stuck in moderation on the main site …
Family photo help needed! We’re getting family photos taken next week (outdoor setting) and I’m stumped on what to have DH wear, and how to finish my outfit. Here’s what I have so far:
Me: Kelly green linen shirt with navy/white embroidery. Still not sure what bottoms to wear. Will wear tan sandals.
Kid 1: Yellow polo shirt, khaki or navy shorts, boat shoes.
Kid 2: White cotton dress with little yellow lemons. The green leaves match the kelly green in my dress. She’ll wear either light blue sandals or a cute little pair of huaraches that match mine.
What should DH wear? Navy top? Something lighter and more summery? I’m stumped. I’m pretty sure I need to buy him something new. And don’t even get me started on shoes.
I’m kind of stressing about this more than I should because wardrobe is one of the few things I can control. I’m fully expecting the kids to either cop an attitude (kid 1, super likely), or get camera shy (kid 2, also likely.) We’ve selected a photographer that’s worked with several families we know well and I love her work … here’s hoping that she can make magic happen! Also, I am bribing them with ice cream. If they do well, we stop and get ice cream on the way home.
Re: pumping… at 3mos with my somewhat oversupply I would have had to do every 2.5 hours for sure. I think you can gradually start stretching it out longer, something like 9:30, 12:30, 3:30 and see how that goes. But If you’re in pain, gradually go for 4 sessions to 3.
We (largely me) have spent the last six weeks shuttling our 7 year old son to a play therapist to help us navigate his forthcoming autism-spectrum diagnosis. My husband and I met with her once for about an hour, my son has been every week for 5 weeks, and then my husband and I went and met with her again today for 1.5 hours in the middle of the day. We sought her help because he has no age-appropriate social relationships with his peers (excluding his sister), but more than that, because he has rigidity and lack of flexibility that results in big tantrums at home. At school, he is a great student and never makes waves. He needs help with the social piece, but that’s not what drove me to ask for help. Its that I honestly don’t know how to navigate some of his outbursts and how to handle the rigidity (keep him on a schedule? but its not always possible? is keeping him on the schedule perpetuating his lack of flexibility? etc.).
I was hopeful that my husband and I would get advice, and that the advice would come from a source that isn’t me relaying what I read in a book. I wanted someone to help us be on the same page with parenting. At the end of the session today, I asked about next steps. I thought there would be a plan to help us. Instead, she offered to go to school with us in the fall to advocate for a 504 for our son. Which is helpful? but not what we actually need (DH is an elem principal and I’m a lawyer, so we’re pretty good on handling school). I’m dismayed at having invested so much time, only to walk away with little-to-no practical help. At our first session, she suggested a book, which I dutifully read and it has been helpful, but not worth 5-6 weeks of leaving work early, arranging alternative care for our daughter and a plan that isn’t really a plan and doesn’t help.
The therapist lavished my husband for making an appointment in the middle of the day, and advised that we didn’t want to add anything to his (DH’s) plate. I think the therapist heard early-on that DH is a principal, whereas I work from home two days a week. She neglected to understand that I also work full-time in a demanding career.
I’m dismayed and upset. Ugh. I don’t want to go through this again with someone else.
I’ve been getting a lot of plugged ducts since I started back at work about a month ago. Right now I’m nursing around 7 am, pumping around 11, and nursing around 4 pm (and then once or twice later in the evening). The problem is that at each of the nursing sessions the baby will only take one breast’s worth of milk (so I can have her empty one breast and leave one full or I can switch her halfway through but then she just drains both breasts halfway). So whichever breast(s) didn’t get fully emptied at the morning feed is super engorged by my pumping session, and then whichever breast doesn’t get nursed at 4 pm gets engorged in the late afternoon/evening.
The engorgement isn’t painful and doesn’t really bother me, but I assume it’s leading to the plugged ducts? I don’t know what to do except pump whichever breast she’s not nursing from at both the morning and afternoon feeds, but that’s a lot of extra pumping I don’t need, and it’s annoying to have to pump at both home and work and carry everything back and forth every day.
Feeling so defeated today. I’m at a 3-day meeting across the country from my baby, having to step out to pump and thus miss content plus draw attention to myself. I can’t help but throw myself a little pity party in this sad bathroom/pumping dungeon. I keep thinking how unfair it is to have to somehow be 10x better than all the men while my body is recovering from growing a human and continuing to feed it.
Someone slap me and tell me to cowboy up!